If you're fortunate enough to have a backyard big enough to house a playscape (or, you know, a backyard at all), the $10K price tag for designer Gregg Fleishman's M-4 Pagoda probably won't strike you as that unusual. Even the smallest wooden playscapes can push you into the mid-four-figure range, with splinters, misaligned drill holes, and hours spent cursing the day you bought it all coming as unintended extras. Fleishman's modular design, however, aims to provide similar durability and longevity without the aggravation: The 127-piece, 340-pound set literally snaps together.
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